A blog about physics… mostly.

The end of the quarter

Well, the last few weeks have been busy. The quarter finished this week. My final was on Monday, the grading was finished on Tuesday and technical problems with submitting the grades remained until Wednesday.

In the meantime, the BP deep water horizon disaster keeps on getting worse and nobody knows when it’s going to get fixed.

I’m looking forward to a few days rest before I can go back to doing what I actually like to do: research. I’ve seen very little of that lately, with all the committees, meetings, exams, grading and whatnot. I’m also looking forward to start posting stuff here again.

Finally, the world cup starts tomorrow. I have to find a place to see some of the matches.

Halliburton may have cemented the wellhead with pigeon snot. Top plugging the bore will give about 15,000 psi equilibrium pressure. The whole thing could blow like a champagne cork – as it did topside. THAT is why it will not be plugged.